She was going to be 104 years old.
Great resistance fighter, engaged in October 1940 within the Freedom movements, then Combat, Françoise de Boissieu, née Cahen, died on March 18.
She joined her husband, Michel de Boissieu, who died in 2008, who was Georges Pompidou's successor at Banque Rothschild.
A great resistant too, he had married her on the very day of the promulgation by the Vichy regime of the status of the Jews, on October 18, 1940.
Mother of four children, graduate in philosophy and professor of psychology, Françoise de Boissieu, who was a very close friend of Simone Veil, will have all her life, successively as president of the Parents' School, member of the Family Commission at Unesco and national secretary of the League against cancer, continued its fight against racism.
Including against anti-old racism, which she saw, with sadness and lucidity, rise in France with the Covid crisis.